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Government Overreach Politicized the Supreme Court

Only when justices regain judicial modesty and apply the Constitution as written will the political battle move from the Supreme Court back to the political branches, where it belongs.

Sept. 13, 2018 2:04 p.m. ET

Thank you for publishing Sen. Ben Sasse’s excellent essay. I think he overlooks two factors in “Blame Congress for Politicizing the Court” (op-ed, Sept. 6).

One, as Mr. Sasse writes, has to do with the growing administrative state. But this isn’t merely a function of lazy lawmakers; a large government is an ideological objective of the progressive movement. From the time of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the progressives have looked to “experts” in the bureaucracy to solve the nation’s problems. FDR gave us a host of...